Title:
[Portrait of James Allen]
Date:
1855
Identifier:
DAG-0121
Format:
1 photograph : daguerreotype ; quarter plate, visible image 3 3/8 x 1/2 in.
Content/Description:
Waist-length portrait of James Allen (mayor of Marysville) in coat, vest, shirt, and bow-tie.
Image Package Note:
Original component parts: plate, mat, cover glass, preserver. Mat: decorative rectangular (double elliptical). Preserver:
decorative.
Case or Exterior Container Note:
Type: case. Motif: geometric. Material: leather over wood. Dimensions: 4 ¾ x 3 ¾ in. Pad: dark green velvet with embossed
motif.
General Administrative Note:
DAGUERREOTYPE-V: ALLEN, JAMES C
Alternative Form:
Copy prints available for viewing filed in the Portrait File under "Allen, James"; accession numbers 1990-1856; 1994-0059
through 1994-0064.
Negatives, No. 22,583 (4x5 in.) B/W; and no. 24,084a-i (4x5 in.) B/W, color, and color transparencies.
General Note:
Neg. 7,101
Provenance:
Handwritten note with the case stating that the daguerreotype was a gift to Mrs. George M. Belden of Canton, Ohio on the occasion
of Allen's notification of his election as State Printer of California.
Subjects:
Allen, James--Portraits.
Pioneers--California.
Men.
Aged persons.
Genre/Format:
Portraits.
Daguerreotypes.